L-Luxembourg: publication of the 'General Report on the Activities of the European Union' and the 'Bulletin of the European Union'

Country:

Luxembourg

City/Locality:

LOYJEMBOYRGO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:215944-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 20, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 3, 2008

Buyer:

OFFICE FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Original Language:

French

Address:

OFFICE FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

Email:

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Notice Type: C398
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
EU Official Journal Publication: 160/2008
, #
215944-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s): Office for Official
Publications of the European Communities, attn: Mr António Carneiro, 2,
rue Mercier, L-2985 Luxembourg. Tel. (352) 29 29-42310. Fax (352) 29
29-42672. E-mail: OPOCE-APPELS-OFFRES@publications.europa.eu.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.publications.europa.eu.
Further information can be obtained from:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:
Aforementioned contact point(s).
I.2) Type of contracting authority and main activity or activities:
European institution/agency or international organisation.
General public services.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Publication of the 'General Report on the Activities of the European
Union' and the 'Bulletin of the European Union'.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category No 15.
Main place of performance: service provider's premises and Publications
Office.
NUTS code: LU.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on the framework agreement: Framework agreement with
several operators.
Maximum number of participants envisaged for the framework agreement: 3.
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 350 000.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Regular
publication, in electronic format, of the 'General Report on the
Activities of the European Union' and the 'Bulletin of the European
Union', which are edited by the Secretariat-General of the European
Commission. For each publication, the contractor will receive electronic
manuscripts (tagged Word, Excel, etc.), and must produce and supply PDF
files, a JPG file, etc.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 78000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: Yes.
Tenders can be submitted for 1 or more lots.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: See point 4 of the specifications.
Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 350 000.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Duration in
months: 12 (from the award of the contract).
Information about lots
Lot 1
Title: publication of the 'General Report on the Activities of the
European Union' in electronic format
1) Short description: Annual publication of the 'General Report on the
Activities of the European Union' in all official languages of the EU, in
PDF format.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 78000000.
3) Quantity or scope: Estimated cost excluding VAT: EUR 225 000.
4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or its
starting/completion: Duration in months: 12 (from the award of the
contract).
Lot 2
Title: publication of the 'Bulletin of the European Union' in electronic
format
1) Short description: Publication of the 'Bulletin of the European Union'
10 times per year in English, French and German, in PDF format.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 78000000.
3) Quantity or scope: Estimated cost excluding VAT: EUR 125 000.
4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or its
starting/completion: Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the
contract).
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Maximum of 30
calendar days from the date on which a valid payment request is received
by the Commission until the date on which the Commission's account is
debited (see Article I.5 of the contract).
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: See point 3 of the specifications.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) Conditions for participation
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating whether requirements have been met:
see minimum requirements laid down by Article 93 of the Financial
Regulation (Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25.6.2002).
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating whether requirements have been met:
see point 2.6.1 of the specifications.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating whether requirements have been met:
see point 2.6.2 of the specifications.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) Conditions specific to service contracts
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved for a particular
profession: No.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for execution of the service: No.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to
tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: AO
10109.
IV.3.2) Previous notice(s) published concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents,
or descriptive document: Final date for receipt of requests for documents
or for accessing documents: 26.9.2008.
Charge for documents: no.
IV.3.4) Final date for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
3.10.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish or
Swedish.
IV.3.7) Period during which the tenderer is bound to maintain his tender:
Duration in months: 9 (from the date stated for receipt of tenders).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 10.10.2008 (10:00).
Place: Publications Office (L-Luxembourg).
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
1 duly authorised representative per tenderer.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) This is a recurrent procurement: No.
VI.2) Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by EU
funds: No.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Court of First Instance
of the European Communities, rue du Fort Niedergrünewald, L-2925
Luxembourg. Tel. (352) 43 03-1. E-mail: CFI.Registry@curia.eu.int. URL:
http://curia.eu.int.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
European Ombudsman, 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman, F-67001
Strasbourg Cedex. Tel. (33) 388 17 23 13. Fax (33) 388 17 90 62. E-mail:
eo@ombudsman.europa.eu. URL: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals:
the deadline for appeals to the Court of First Instance of the European
Communities is 2 months from the date on which the petitioner is notified
of the decision.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 8.8.2008.

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